Four workers on Ottawa’s light-rail transit extension were sent to hospital Thursday morning after a rebar cage collapsed at the site of the future Ottawa airport station.
OC Transpo head John Manconi sent a memo to council stating there was an incident just before 10:30 a.m. on Thursday involving five people working on the Trillium Line extension near the Ottawa International Airport.
A spokesperson for TransitNext, a subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin contracted to build the southern extension of Ottawa’s LRT, confirmed the incident to Global News.
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The spokesperson said a crew on the site was assembling a rebar cage from the inside when it collapsed onto five workers.
One worker was uninjured while the remaining four were taken to hospital for treatment, the spokesperson said.
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Work on the site has been shut down while Ontario’s Ministry of Labour investigates.
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